Today I was called for the CNE (CN Ballast Train Empties)

We board our train here at Junction City and on our train today we have 2 CN ES locos and 67 ballast cars, that will lead our train up to Mathy, to get a load of ballast....


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We aboard our train with the 67 empties and begin to pull our train off the Superior Sub and onto the Valley Sub where it will take this train North up to Mathy




At Knowlton, the train crosses the Wisconsin River


Past a boat landing here at Knowlton


Set up at Mathy, our train slows to take the ballast pit siding to cut away 27 cars to be filled


Leaving the 27 cars to be filled


We then pull the rest of the train up to Mosinee, where there is a small yard to set out the rest of the ballast cars


All tucked away in the small yard here at Mosinee, we wait for the others to be loaded up at the pit